Frequently asked questions

Pulse is a privacy-first website analytics platform by Ciphera. It tracks pageviews, unique visitors, referrers, and geographic data without using cookies, fingerprinting, or collecting any personal data. It's a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.

The Personal plan is free forever — one site, 5,000 pageviews a month, no card. Business starts at €11/month and scales with pageview volume; every feature ships on every plan, Personal included. Open-source projects and registered nonprofits get the Business plan at €0 by application.

Pulse is not a drop-in replacement for Google Analytics — it's fundamentally different by design. There are no accounts, no cross-site identity and no history beyond a calendar month, so GA's user-level exports have nothing to map onto and can't be imported. However, you can run both side by side during a transition period.

The Pulse client — dashboard and tracking script — are open source and available on GitHub. You can inspect every line of code that runs on your site and verify our privacy claims.

We open-source everything that runs where trust matters: the tracking script on your visitors' browsers, the dashboard, the CLI, and the API types — every line is on GitHub. The managed cloud backend is closed, the same model Proton uses: auditable clients, operated core. If you want to verify what we collect, the script is the place to look — and the live demo shows exactly what we see.

Pulse shares the privacy-first philosophy with Plausible and Fathom, but it's built on Swiss infrastructure with Swiss data protection laws. The client — dashboard and tracking script — are open source, and Pulse is part of the Ciphera ecosystem, giving you a unified privacy-first stack.